What an odd duck the Indianapolis 500 is—embracing the latest in technology while steadfastly holding tight to traditions so old half the audience is unlikely to understand them without an explanation from a helpful pre-dementia graybeard. READ MORE ››

Because we’re cockeyed optimists (or at least cockeyed), we have to assume there’s a plan percolating somewhere inside the office at 4551 West 16th Street, the Indianapolis address that houses the main offices of IndyCar. Among the highly paid and exceptionally well-dressed executives that work there is Mark Miles, chief executive officer of Hulman & Company, which not only oversees Clabber Girl baking powder and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway but also the IndyCar Series. READ MORE ››

So, Tony Stewart has purchased the All Star Circuit of Champions Sprint Car Series. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. It’s just the latest investment in the Tony Stewart Retirement Plan. There’s a method to Stewart’s dirt-track madness, and grassroots racing is better for it. And it probably won’t end with the All Stars. READ MORE ››

At 1 p.m. Monday, we were on the phone with racer Kuno Wittmer, who on Saturday drove a Dodge SRT Viper GTS-R to the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship GT Le Mans season driver’s title and team title, to talk about his bright future in 2015 with SRT.

At 1:30 p.m. that same day, Kuno Wittmer was out of work. READ MORE ››

It was June 13, 2012, a beautiful day along the shore of the Hudson River, on the New Jersey side, where the backers of the Grand Prix of America are celebrating the fact that there will be a Formula 1 race here in 2013. Or 2014. Maybe 2015. Maybe never. Does never work for you? READ MORE ››

In his first interview with the media since his dirt-track sprint car struck and killed 20-year-old fellow racer Kevin Ward, Jr. on August 9, NASCAR driver Tony Stewart told the Associated Press that he knows “100 percent in my heart and in my mind that I did not do anything wrong. This was 100 percent an accident.” READ MORE ››

Grief makes you do—and say—things you might not otherwise. So do lawyers. Shortly after an Ontario County, New York, grand jury declined on Tuesday to charge Tony Stewart in the death of Kevin Ward, Jr., the 20-year-old sprint-car driver tragically killed when he walked into the path of Stewart’s car on August 9, the Ward family issued this statement: READ MORE ››